{"id":528826,"date":"2026-03-17T13:34:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T13:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/528826\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T13:34:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T13:34:11","slug":"final-penguins-7-avalanche-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/528826\/","title":{"rendered":"Final: Penguins 7, Avalanche 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2022\u00a0Who: Penguins (33-18-15) vs. Avalanche (44-12-9)
\u2022\u00a0What: NHL regular season, Game 67
\u2022\u00a0When: 9:50 p.m. Eastern
\u2022\u00a0Where: Ball Arena
\u2022 Goaltenders: Arturs Silovs (14-9-8, .891 SV%) vs.\u00a0Scott Wedgewood (25-4-5, .918 SV%)
\u2022\u00a0TV:\u00a0SportsNet Pittsburgh, ESPN
\u2022 Stream:\u00a0SNP360<\/a> (local),\u00a0ESPN+<\/a> (out-of-market)
\u2022 Radio: Penguins Radio Network<\/a>
\u2022 Satellite: SiriusXM 91<\/a>
\u2022 Boxscore: NHL.com
<\/a>\u2022 Media notes: Penguins<\/a> | Avalanche<\/a><\/p>\n

\u25ba FOLLOW ALONG<\/p>\n

\u2022 Ballgame. My God.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Nothing left but Penguins fans in here. Have I mentioned that they really hate this in Denver?<\/p>\n

\u2022 GOAL. Acciari fulfills Taylor’s pregame prophecy. Assist: Soderblom. Time: 9:06, third period. Penguins, 7-2<\/p>\n

\u2022 Excellent glove save by Silovs. Right in tight, he’s so, so tough to beat. He’s been good here.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Third’s underway.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Uh, the Avs have stopped skating. Sure didn’t see this part coming. Just asked a Denver-based reporter here, and they said they hadn’t seen something like this all winter here.<\/p>\n

\u2022 GOAL. Rust on a power-play breakaway. Five-hole. That’s six goals on 14 shots for the visitors, and I can’t think of a bad goal among them. What a night. Penguins, 6-2<\/p>\n

\u2022 Silovs takes a tripping penalty.<\/p>\n

\u2022 GOAL. Karlsson shot it from the right point, and it deflected in off Malinski. Three points for him. Unassisted. Time: 10:36, second period.\u00a0Penguins, 5-2<\/p>\n

\u2022 Rare shot by Solovyov. Just took a wrister. Might’ve blasted it. So much room. Easy for me to say from up here, though.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Rare giveaway by Solovyov. Novak comes back to bail him out. Just plain old mishandled the puck.<\/p>\n

\u2022 A fine kill, particularly by Rust and Acciari.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Sharp save by Silovs, point-blank on Necas. But a holding penalty on Mantha.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Second’s underway.<\/p>\n

\u2022 That’s period. Avalanche had 17 shots to the Penguins’ seven. Both of those need to change dramatically, or this lead won’t last long at all.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Plainly, Avalanche know Silovs isn’t at his best on the long shots. Everything’s being flicked now from any distance.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Two really obvious Colorado penalties ignored. Can see it’s ticking off the visitors down there.<\/p>\n

\u2022 GOAL. Nelson on a tip in front. He’s still an Islander. Assists: Burns, Grindley. Time: 14:21, first period. Penguins, 4-2<\/p>\n

\u2022 GOAL. Soderblom. Karlsson does well to get the puck through. Bang with the rebound. His first in a Pittsburgh sweater. Maybe change goalies again? This is unreal. Other assist: Dewar. Time: 13:43, first period. Penguins, 4-1<\/p>\n

\u2022 GOAL. Geno again. Wow. Mini-break for him after being set up on a smooth backhand pass from Chinakhov, two-on-one down low. Have I mentioned he’s flying? Penguins, 3-1<\/p>\n

\u2022 This isn’t the night to just be handing the puck away. These guys are on you so fast.<\/p>\n

\u2022 That’s a kill … by Silovs. Good side-to-side for him tonight.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Drury’s off for a hook on Novak. Geno made that shift. Man, he’s just soaring.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Roaring, standing ovation to welcome back Girard. … Do they want him back?<\/p>\n

\u2022 That’s a kill.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Koivunen’s off for a cross-check. That’s two penalties in the offensive zone already.<\/p>\n

\u2022 GOAL. Mantha. Clean breakaway sprung by Karlsson. Sweet backhand, but he elevated this one, not his normal move. Time: 4:23, first period. Penguins, 2-1<\/p>\n

\u2022 GOAL. MacKinnon. Right between the hashes. He’s not getting stopped there. Novak fell asleep there a little. Took no one. Time: 4:08, first period. Tie, 1-1<\/p>\n

\u2022 GOAL. Geno … and a wow! Just like the Dewar goal that, not coincidentally worked on together, those two. Crazy backhand. Assists: Rust, Acciari. Time: 3:01, first period. Penguins, 1-0<\/p>\n

\u2022 Geno’s off for an offensive-zone trip, just like that.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Faceoff: Rakell vs. MacKinnon, 9:50 p.m. Eastern.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Man, these Quebec sweaters … imagine a league that wouldn’t want this for-real.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Plenty of black and gold, both outside and in here. Usually the case here. Even though they really, really hate it. Denver people hate having visiting fans more than anywhere in the country, regardless of sport.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Warmups underway. No surprises.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Dan Muse’s lines and pairings tonight:<\/p>\n

Egor Chinakhov-Tommy Novak-Evgeni Malkin
Anthony Mantha-Rickard Rakell-Bryan Rust
Justin Brazeau-Ben Kindel-Ville Koivunen
Elmer Soderblom-Connor Dewar-Noel Acciari<\/p>\n

Parker Wotherspoon-Erik Karlsson
Ryan Shea-Kris Letang
Ilya Solovyov-Connor Clifton<\/p>\n

\u2022 Jared Bednar’s lines and pairings tonight in an 11-7 breakdown:<\/p>\n

Nazem Kadri-Nate MacKinnon-Martin Ne\u010das
Nicolas Roy-Brock Nelson-Valeri Nichushkin
Parker Kelly-Jack Drury-Joel Kiviranta
Gavin Brindley-Zakhar Bardakov-Nick Blankenburg<\/p>\n

Devon Toews-Cale Makar
Josh Manson-Brent Burns
Brett Kulak-Sam Malinski<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2022\u00a0Who: Penguins (33-18-15) vs. Avalanche (44-12-9)\u2022\u00a0What: NHL regular season, Game 67\u2022\u00a0When: 9:50 p.m. Eastern\u2022\u00a0Where: Ball Arena\u2022 Goaltenders: Arturs…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":528827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[1223,201663,385,211789,15550,91698,211788,99],"class_list":["post-528826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-colorado-avalanche","tag-feed-article","tag-nhl","tag-on-location","tag-penguins","tag-penguins-news","tag-site-stuff","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/528827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}